Custom icon seems locked ... can't change it

Powermac G5/10.4.6
A while back I put custom icons on two partitions of a LaCie FW drive. I'd like to change the icons, but I can't select them in the "Get Info" window. I can change icons of other drives, just not these two partitions. When I click on the icon in the info window, it does not become "selected" (with the blue border around it.) Pasting does nothing and dragging an image into the Preview area of Get Info does nothing, either.
I've got Read & Write permissions on both these drives.
Any ideas?
AG

hi again,
just follow the steps as i wrote them before. i'll put them here again w/ some more comments to walk you through
1. double-click on the Terminal Application: Applications > Utilities > Terminal.
2. a "Terminal" window pops up
3. now enter the letters "cd", then a space, then drag the icon for the drive from a finder window into this Terminal window.
4. hit return.
now enter this: ls -lasF
then hit return to see what's in that area.
do you see a file in that listing called .VolumeIcon.icns ?
post back if it's still not clear so far...
to delete that file, enter in tothe same Terminal window the following command:
sudo rm .VolumeIcon.icns
then hit return.
then enter your admin password and hit return.
then enter ls -lasF again. this custom icon file will be gone now...
cheers

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